Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
